From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-01-24T07:45:15+09:00
Subject: Re: exit status, stderr and stdout

Hi,

At Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:26:34 +0900,
Daniel Bretoi wrote:
> min,out,err = Open3.popen3("ls ---");

Did you "Process.wait" here?

> p  $? >> 8
> 
> => 255

$ ruby -ropen3 -e 'min,out,err = Open3.popen3("ls ---");p $?'
nil
[nobu@sharui:~/src/ruby/rough/lib/testunit 07:42:40]
$ ruby -ropen3 -e 'min,out,err = Open3.popen3("ls ---");Process.wait;p $?>>8'
1

$? won't be set until Process.wait return.

-- 
Nobu Nakada